Jul 17 2008
Getting “electronically” naked at the Beijing Olympics
I swear people have to sit around and think of phrases like this…from the WSJ:
In addition to cybersecurity threats in other countries, “so many people are going to the Olympics and are going to get electronically undressed,” said Joel Brenner, the government’s top counterintelligence officer. He tells of one computer-security expert who powered up a new Treo hand-held computer when his plane landed in China. By the time he got to his hotel, a handful of software programs had been wirelessly inserted.
http://www.rfid-weblog.com/50226711/building_a_faraday_cage_in_clothing_to_shield_rfid_tags.php
I wonder how a third party wirelessly inserts software onto a smartphone. Through the wireless provider’s OTA?
No laughs on the last one…tough crowd
Proof of concept tested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2h0shuImsA